Each year principals in LISD are asked to prepare a grant request for LEF’s Campus Excellence Grant Program. Requests must impact a majority of the student body. Recently LEF staff and board members visited six lucky schools to award...

Farmers Harvest, the student newspaper of Lewisville High School, is a top-notch publication. The journalism team at LHS provides great instruction, and it isn’t uncommon for student journalists to win awards for their work on the paper. But with...

Music students at Ethridge Elementary had a great opportunity – and a problem. Their music department was well-equipped with 12 Orff glockenspiels, small xylophone instruments that help students learn rhythm and tempo as well as other music concepts. But...

Thanks to your generosity and support of LEF, students at Polser Elementary enjoyed an exciting and unique opportunity in their art class last year – and will continue to enjoy it for years to come! Polser Art Teacher Amy...

Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF), an organization best known for granting awards to others, recently received an award of its own. At the annual Unity in Communities Luncheon, a collaborative effort of the Lewisville and Flower Mound Chambers of...

Thanks to your generous support, students at Briarhill Middle School are experiencing technology education in a new and exciting way. From the beginning of Lewisville ISD’s 1:x program, which aimed to provide students with the right device at the...

Thanks to the generosity of donors and benefactors, the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation presented more than 250 scholarships, valued at more than $150,000, to members of LISD’s class of 2015. Six LISD employees were also presented with fellowships to...

Cain Sczepanski was a student whose pride in his education ran deep. His family attributes that to the great educational experience and the inspiring LISD educators who worked with Cain. In the hopes of paying forward the great things...

Thanks to the generosity of donors and benefactors, the Lewisville ISD Education Foundation presented more than 250 scholarships, valued at more than $150,000, to members of LISD’s class of 2015. Six LISD employees were also presented with fellowships to...

That instruction seems straightforward, but what if the engine isn’t in a vehicle? And what if the recipients of the instruction are Automotive Technology students in Brad Warren’s class at Lewisville ISD’s Career Center East? That makes the instruction...

When you give to LEF, you support a teacher…. Like Noel Andia who teaches 10th grade English at Lewisville High School’s Harmon campus and was awarded a grant from LEF last summer. With that award she was able to...

LEF is pleased to announce LHS Aquatic Science teacher Dawn Chegwidden as the 2015 winner of the Ted Barnes Award for Excellence in Education. This award was established by Ted Barnes, who taught at Lewisville High School for 25...

In November and December members of the LISD community were invited to show their support for the LISD educators in their lives by making a donation in the educators’ names to LEF. It’s called a Changing Children’s Lives Award,...

Lewisville ISD seniors with an interest in marketing and a plan to attend college in the fall of 2015 are invited to utilize their own creativity and personal research to design and script (but not produce) a 30-second Van...

Growing up, many kids play with Legos. Many of today’s adults recall Legos as one of their favorite childhood toys. But times have changed, and kids today have a whole new plan for Legos. Vickery students enjoy enhancing their...

Thanks to the Christine Nicole Smith Memorial Grant and LISD Employee Giving, Melissa Cary’s third-grade students at Bridlewood Elementary enjoy a flexible learning environment in which their brains are more fully engaged in every task. “Early in my career...

“Unbelievable,” that’s the word used by LEF Executive Director Connie Pelphrey when the numbers showed LEF surpassed the $1 million mark in grant awards to Lewisville ISD schools. From its inception in 1990, until Pelphrey took the reins at...

The school library is iconic to the memory of one’s school days. Many people remember it fondly as the place they could find a book to transport them to another place or time, a place to find a book...

“I’m not sure yet what I want to be when I grow up,” Hebron High School Senior and Dale Jackson Career Center Hospitality Student Skylar Nedd said. “But this certainly opens doors and gives me experience and hands-on knowledge...

LEF received exciting news — perhaps the most exciting news in LEF history! In short, LEF comes out on top when measured against peers! The Lewisville ISD Education Foundation, as part of a nationwide survey by an independent firm,...

Last year LEF funded a grant written by Lewisville High School Orchestra Director Kevin Sluder. “Playing a string instrument can be very expensive, and that is just for the basic instrument/bow setup,” Sluder explained. “Making training and tuning items...

What’s next? Parents, teachers and students wonder that each day. For many, the answer is simple: whatever comes next in a standard progression. What about students whose standards are different? Students in LISD’s Focus on the Future (FoF) program...

Preserving the memory of Cain Sczepanski, a Lewisville ISD student whose life touched all who knew him, while honoring LISD educators whose daily work changes children’s lives, is what the Cain Sczepanski Award of Excellence in Special Education aims...

LEF is pleased to announce LHS Social Studies teacher Rob Borenstein as the 2014 Ted Barnes Award for Excellence in Education. This award was established by Ted Barnes, who taught at Lewisville High School for 25 years before losing...

“My nana bought me new garden gloves to use at the garden today,” she said as she led the way to the Lakeland Elementary section of the Lewisville Community Garden. She is Gia Clement, a first-grade student at Lakeland...

Lewisville ISD Education Foundation awarded $127,600 in scholarships to 198 seniors from the five LISD high schools. Six LISD employees also received $3,500 in fellowships to assist as they seek to advance their education with postsecondary degrees. LEF’s 2014...

Max Goldsmith, LISD Athletic Director (1966-1983) A 1940 graduate of Lewisville High School (LHS), Max Goldsmith returned to LISD in 1966 after a very successful 20-year career in Andrews, Texas, where he built from scratch an athletics program that...

Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) partnered with the Verizon Foundation and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) to award Lewisville ISD’s Lewisville High School Killough (Killough) Campus with the Verizon Innovative Learning School Grant. The application process...

Hedrick Middle School (HMS) students in Julia McCloud’s English Language Arts (ELA) classes are experiencing learning differently than ever before thanks to collaboration between McCloud, HMS Principal Barbara Hamric and LEF. “There was so much talk about changing learning...

From whence we came… Lewisville ISD Education Foundation was founded in 1990 to enrich the quality of public education in the 13 communities served by LISD and serves as a vehicle for securing private funding benefiting LISD teachers and...

From whence we came… Lewisville ISD Education Foundation was founded in 1990 to enrich the quality of public education in the 13 communities served by LISD and serves as a vehicle for securing private funding benefiting LISD teachers and...

For the second consecutive year, students in The Colony High School’s AVID (Advancement via Individual Determination) program reap the benefits of E-Prep test preparation software thanks to Lewisville ISD Education Foundation (LEF) grants sponsored by Aramark and CoServ Electric....

2 (2nd grade teachers) x 2 elementary schools + 40 eager learners = collaborative learning of the highest (and most engaging!) order. Hebron Valley Elementary second-grade teacher Tina Montegudo had an idea. And as she frequently does when she...

When Wellington Elementary School teacher Gina Alday had the opportunity to transition from teaching fourth grade to working in the Specials Rotation as the Science Discovery teacher, she was ecstatic. But on the heels of the excitement came a...